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05/13/2012

If the Anointed Priest Sins in Ignorance

Speak to the children of Israel, saying: A person who sins in ignorance of any of the Eternal's commandments concerning things which are forbidden, yet commits one of them: if the anointed priest sins, incriminating the people, he is to offer an unblemished young bull to the Eternal as a sin-offering for his sin which he has committed. He is to bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the Eternal. He is to lay his hand on the head of the bull and slaughter the bull before the Eternal. The anointed priest is to take from the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of meeting. The priest is to dip his finger in the blood and splash from the blood seven times before the Eternal, in front of the veil of the sanctuary. The priest is to put from the blood onto the horns of the altar of spicy incense which is in the tent of meeting, before the Eternal. And he is to pour all the blood of the bull at the foundation of the ascension altar which is by the entrance of the tent of meeting. And he is to raise all the fat of the bull of the sin-offering from it: the fat that covers the innards and all the fat that is on the innards. The two kidneys and the fat which is on them, on the flanks, and the gland that is over the liver above the kidneys, he is to remove - just as the peace-sacrifice was raised from the ox. The priest will incinerate them on the ascension altar. He will take the entire bull - the skin of the bull and all its meat, with its head and with its legs, its innards and its excrement - outside the camp to a pure place, to the ash dump, and burn it on wood in fire. It is to be burnt on the ash dump. - Leviticus 4:2-12